An improved life through better health
If what you want is to live longer, then according to research just carried out in Germany, you'd better run. Or, do any endurance exercise, as they call it. Get your heart pumping. After accompanying 266 inactive people (i.e. who did less than 60 mins exercise a week), scientists measured the volunteers' telomeres before and... Continue Reading →
After my post on the consequences of us living longer a few days back, here's another article just out from Forbes on the future of longevity: Want To Live Longer? How Life Extension Industry Will Reboot Health, Wellness and The Economy
Some scientists call aging a disease. And they want to eradicate it. So, when we achieve this, people will live much longer lives. And they will be healthy. When we talk about health, disease prevention, what we want is to live a healthy life. But we also want to live our final days healthy. In... Continue Reading →
With the workforce getting older, and people working less during their lives but longer, people in Japan are wearing exoskeletons to keep working as they age, which I think is a great technological advance to help people continue to be independent and useful for longer.
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